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World Building: Crafting Screenplays Readers Can Step Into
Screenwriters University
This course will offer specific tips for creating and implementing advice on building the world of your screenplay. This class also covers research advice and tips, strengthening visual storytelling in action paragraphs, developing and implementing settings, examining character and plot conflict as it relates to your settings, and genre consistency.
Website: https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/
Categories: Screenplay and Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$180.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Business Writing Essentials
The Business Writing Center
This course focuses on best practices for professional business writing. It includes three full-document writing evaluations and teaches skills such as overcoming writer's block, starting and finishing documents, guiding readers through your message, and choosing the correct business vocabulary.
Website: https://businesswriting.com/courses/
Categories: Business
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$295.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
Self-paced (est. 2 months)
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Starting to Write Your Novel
Curtis Brown Creative
This course helps develop your novel from the ground up, including idea generation, plotting, and crafting a confident opening. It features six modules with videos and notes by Anna Davis, covering topics like inspiration, character development, and writing a first chapter. The course offers weekly writing tasks, additional resources, and professional feedback, designed for flexible learning with a recommended four hours per week. Anna Davis, the course instructor, is an experienced novelist and the founder of Curtis Brown Creative.
Website: https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
Categories: Book and Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
£220.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
6 weeks
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
This course focuses on developing character and dialogue skills, guiding participants to create realistic characters and engaging dialogues that drive narratives. It emphasizes understanding the relationship between character and dialogue, and the influence of setting on character motivation.
Website: https://writingnsw.org.au/
Categories: Book and Fiction
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$210.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Approximately 6 hours of self-paced work, with no live meetings.
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Writing a Memoir
Curtis Brown Creative
Guided by Cathy Rentzenbrink, this course focuses on bringing real-life stories to the page. It includes weekly modules with videos and notes, writing tasks to help structure life stories, and resources including extracts from Rentzenbrink's own work. Professional feedback is provided, and the course is designed for flexible online learning.
Website: https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
Categories: Memoir and Nonfiction
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
£220.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
6 weeks
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Sketch Comedy 201
LIT Comedy
This course is designed for students who have completed Sketch 101. It focuses on writing different types of sketches and refining sketch writing skills in a supportive writers' room environment over four weeks.
Website: https://www.litcomedy.com/
Categories: Comedy
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$350.00
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
4 weeks
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: Completion of LIT's Sketch 101 course is required.
Short Story Fundamentals
Writer's Digest University
This course caters to both beginners and seasoned writers, offering a comprehensive exploration of the short story medium. It covers the structure of short stories and addresses common challenges writers face, providing valuable insights for crafting compelling narratives.
Website: https://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/
Categories: Short Story and Fiction
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$250.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
1 month
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Brave Writer 101: Guided Writing Process
Brave Writer
A 6-week coaching program where parents work one-on-one with a writing coach to help their children write confidently. The course includes communication, observation, freewriting, revision, and editing. It aims to make writing enjoyable and manageable for both parents and children.
Website: https://bravewriter.com/
Categories: Kids
Start date:
July, 2024
Price:
$249.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
6 weeks
Class size: Limited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Developing Video Game Narratives
UCLA Extension
Writing for games requires an understanding of structure that goes beyond linear storytelling. In this course, you will explore the nature of interactive stories by working in different formats (choose your own adventure, virtual novels, the Telltale style, etc.) and writing games that exemplify the fundamental concepts of branching narrative.
Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$720.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
12 weeks
This course explores interdisciplinary playwriting through creative exercises in various mediums such as sculpture, digital media, and scientific research. Participants will create short plays and receive mini-lectures related to their explorations.
Website: https://www.playpenn.org/
Categories: Fiction and Playwriting
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$160.00
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
4 sessions, each lasting 2 hours
Class size: Unlimited
Online Memoir Workshop
The Writers Studio
This six-week course includes close readings of varied memoirs, application of narrative techniques from fiction and poetry, weekly writing exercises, Google Meet discussions, and critiques from both peers and the instructor.
Website: https://courses.writerstudio.com/
Categories: Book and Memoir
Start date:
October, 2024
Price:
$385.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
6 weeks (1 lesson per week)
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Creating Authentic Emotional Conflict
Screenwriters University
Character and plot are intertwined. If the audience does not care about the characters, the plot will falter. This workshop will cover how to naturally develop characters and story as a single unit so that your audience connects on a deep emotional level.
Website: https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/
Categories: Screenplay and Fiction
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$19.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
